All My Heroes are Drunks

(A Love Poem for the writers)

If you are young, and drink, or use drugs, you're a fool, if you are old

I suppose, it might do...! Sometimes its takes booze to talk to fools.

The only thing worse than booze, is suicide. It no longer offers pleasure,

Only veils loneliness, and attempts to escape. I drank for

Many years, and then, for many years I didn't, but it

Haunts me, it has its own mind. Drinking starts with a word

And ends with a word. I never could think straight, I

Guess that was the premise of it all. I

Laughed, talked and danced, and was

Never sure with whom. I never

Knew my potential

Until I stopped drinking...!

For my Heroes (all writers and all drunks):

Truman Capote (1924-1984) 59-years old at death

RAYMOND CHANDLER [1888-1959] 71-years old at death

FREDERICK EXLEY [1929-92] 63-years old at death

JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) 47-years old at death

JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 40-years old at death

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 44-years old at death

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1949) 40-years old at death

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 65-years old at death

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 62-years old at death

HUNTER S. THOMPSON (1937-2005) 48-years old at death

- CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1994) 74-years old at death